For a scholar, a UWC education provides a remarkable opportunity to gain qualifications that will set them on a lifelong path toward success, along the way developing the qualities and skills that will help them to enact the mission in their communities as their bias for action is enhanced.

As the world prepares for COP26 in November 2021, the 18 UWC schools and colleges have united to issue a joint commitment to tackling the threat of global climate change. Together, we have pledged to name how we intend to contribute to a resilient, net zero global economy that protects, values and rebuilds the natural world.

In 2020, under the leadership of Carma Elliot, College President, the College embarked on a review of our values, which were inherited from the UWC movement as a series of long sentences in an unusual mixture of values, dispositions and behaviours. The movement had reviewed and updated their model, but the College had yet to follow suit. From the start, the project was conceived as a ‘Values in Action’ project, which would result in not just a revised set of values, but clarity around the behaviours that would bring those values to life.

The IDEAS Hub at Dover and the newly established UWCSEA East Innovation ecosystem encourage students of all ages to internalise an innovator’s mindset, think critically and to connect and collaborate with their local community as they seek to create solutions to real-world issues.